Events

On 9th February 2010 the Robert Schuman Foundation and the CERI organised a seminar entitled "The EU in quest of political legitimacy: towards new common ground?". This seminar which opened to the public aimed to add positively to the debate on finding new common ground for the EU. The theme of the third meeting in this series of seminars focused on the theme "The problem of designating the Union: how should the EU be embodied as a political and legal entity". The session took place with Olivier Beaud, Professor in Public Law at the University of Paris II - Panthéon Assas.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the declaration in which Robert Schuman set the foundations for the construction of Europe on 9th May 1950 the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE) organised on 8th February 2010 a competition opened to all classes in the secondary and technical sections, both public and private in Luxembourg, Poland and France.

One year after Barack Obama took office as president of the USA, the Robert Schuman Foundation organised the presentation in Paris of a book "La France, l'Amérique et le Monde: une nouvelle ère dans les relations franco-américaines?" (France, America and the World: a new Era in Franco-American Relations?) on 21st January 2010 at the Centre d'Accueil de la Presse Etrangère (CAPE) - this is a joint edition with the Center for Transatlantic Relations and the Robert Schuman Foundation. Michel Foucher, co-manager of the work and member of the Foundation's scientific council and Jean-Dominique Giuliani hosted the debate.

The Robert Schuman Foundation and the CERI organised a seminar on 13th January 2010 entitled "The European Union and its quest for political legitimacy - the development of a joint discourse?" This seminar, which opened to the public aimed to provide information about the possibility of a new joint discourse on the European Union. The theme of the second part of this seminar focused on the following theme "Dess(e)ins européens: les territoires et leur récits" (European Plans: territories and their discourse). The meeting took place with Michel Foucher, professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm) on 13th January 2010 at the CERI.

The Chairman of the Foundation, Jean-Dominique Giuliani, travelled to Berlin on 8th and 9th December to take part in the 8th Congress on European Defence and Security. He spoke at the first round table on the theme of: Developing the European Security Strategy - how to implement a modified strategic concept?"

The Robert Schuman Foundation, in partnership with FAES, the Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy, Ano Pro Evropu, the Ithaka Foundation, and with the support of the "Europe for citizens" program, organised on 19 November in Brussels the conference "Women in Europe. For a true parity." Notably participating in the conference were Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia, Margot Wallström, Vice-President of the European Commission and Vladimir Spidla, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities.

The Robert Schuman Foundation organises on Thursday 12 November in Brussels a seminar on the theme, "The Stockholm Programme: An improved management strategy for information in the area of Justice, Liberty, and Security." This event will be an opportunity for debate, with representatives from European institutions, member states and the economic sector, on issues such as border management, interstate cooperation, the collection and distribution of data and the difficult balance between security and liberty.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Foundation for Political Innovation, in partnership with the Robert Schuman Foundation, organizes under the direction of Stéphane Courtois, an international conference on the theme: "To leave communism, to change time," on the 4, 5, 6 November 2009, at the Horticulture Auditorium (84, rue de Grenelle, Paris 7e)